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Originally posted by PackRat: My mom sent me this email.
REMEMBER 1957?
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(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now"
Someone who lived in a closet theoretically could have said this in 1957, but electric typewriters had been invented about a half century earlier and had been available since the early 1920's.
That would be roughly the equivalent of someone in the year 2012 saying, "Someone is actually making a computer that a person can purchase and use right in his own home".
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